Universal web guide



May 26, 1942.

w. E. HAMLIN UNIVERSAL WEB GUIDE Filed Ngv. 15, 1939 INVENTOR. Golfer 6.Hamlin ATTORNEYS.

Patented May 26, 1942 UNIVERSAL WEB GUIDE Walter E. Hamlin, Cleveland,Ohio, assignor to The Cleveland Shopping News Company, Cleveland, Ohio,a corporation of Ohio Application November 15, 1989, Serial No. 304,589

1 Claim.

This invention relates to supports for traveling webs such as inprinting and other machinery Where a Web of sheet material is forwarded;and it is among the objects ofthe invention to pro- !vide a support orguide which may be adjusted to various directions and angular positionsrelative to the-longitudinal axis of the web and with the same meansthroughout, and thus free from undue complication.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention,then, comprises the features hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claim, the following description and theannexed drawing setting forth in detail certain illustrative embodimentsofthe invention, these being indicative however, of but a few of thevarious ways in which the principle of the invention may be employed.

In said annexed drawing:

Fi 1 is a side elevational view of an embodiment of the invention; Figs.2 and 3 are respectively plan and end elevational views thereof;

and Figs. 4 and 5 are details in plan and elevation respectively. 1

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated, a portion of a newspress including framing F, printing cylinders 2, coacting cylinders 3,and folding mechanism 6 is shown, the webof paper proceeding aftercontact with the printing cylinders over a guide roll 4 to the foldingmechanism, and arranged along the path of the web are longitudinal bars8 suitably supported upon the framing, as by brackets 9, ill, the barsbeing secured thereby. On the bars, one being at each side, areslidesI2, these being slidable backand forth on the bars, but being'lockablethereto by suitable means at desired positions; for instance set screwsI3, Fig. 5, may be carried by the slides to tighten against thebarswhere desired. Heads I4 are swiveled on the slides, as by stems I5mounting in bores provided by the slides; and the heads may be locked tothe.slides, in any desired angle of position relative thereto, bysuitable means, for instance set screws 16 taking through the slides tobind against the stems l5. Extending throughthe heads I4 are web guidebars l8, these being slidable therein to any desired position; andlocking means may be pro- Vided to suitably'hold the bar in the desiredposition; for instance set screws 20 may bear- 5 rangedin'the heads toengage against the bars;

' It will be seen from the foregoing that with the locking meansreleased in each instance, the slides l2 may be moved'along the bars 8to any desired position, the guides l8 being at an angle 10 to the bars,one end in advance of the other, or

the angular directionmay be reversed, or'the uides may be set squareacross or the spacing between guides may be changed, all as desired 7and with great convenience and facility, and by the locking means anysuch position may be maintained; and thus the web may be guided toeither or both folding means, or the side of presentation thereto may bechanged, etc., and all with complete free adjustability.

Other modes of applying the principle of the invention may be employed,changefbeing made a regards the details described, provided the featuresstated in the following claim, or the equivalentof such, be employed.

claim as my invention:

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly In apparatus of thecharacter described hav ing framing with printing cylinders and foldingmeans, longitudinal bars between said printing cylinders and saidfolding means, a pair of web guidebars spaceable at optional distancesfrom each other along' said longitudinal bars, and means for settingsaid web guide bars" at any desired distance apart from each other andat forward or reverse angles, relative to either longitudinal bar,including two slides regulable with respect to each other on each ofsaid longitudinal bars, set screws through said slides for locking theslides on the bars, heads swiveled on said slides, set screws throughsaid slides to' lock said 'heads in any position in said slides, saidweb guide: bars extending slidably' at each s end through said heads,and set screw through said 4 heads to lock the web guide bars.

WALTER 'E. HAMLIN.

